Show Review:
Nashville GIRS Show – A Show Worth Writing About!
Like many collectors, I attend several artifact shows each year in different parts of the country. Some shows I attend are good buying shows were it seems deals can be had on all kinds of different types of relics and I go with buying on my mind. Other shows I attend are more social in nature where I can see some nice old relics, maybe buy a piece or two for my collection, but mostly I am attending to visit and socialize with my collector friends who I know will also be there. While the internet may have replaced a lot of the purchasing that used to go on at shows and in person, it can never replace the social and educational aspect of meeting face to face with other collectors and talking rocks.
When the Nashville, Tennessee GIRS show came up on the calendar, I will be honest; I didn’t give it much thought. It would be an eight hour drive for me, and it was a show I had never attended so I wasn’t sure what to expect or if it was going to be worth the long trip, motel bills and gas money. Face it, anyone who has attended shows for years has at some point driven a long way only to find out the show was smaller than they thought it would be, or it was chalk full of fakes and flea market items, or none of their friends were there. I really didn’t think too much about it until a friend of mine called and told me he was planning on attending the Nashville show, saying that he had heard through the grapevine that it was a pretty good show to go to.
